PGI Community Edition

[nemequ]

http://www.pgroup.com/products/community.htm

PGI has a community edition. I think this is a new offering, but I could be wrong.

Anyways, PGI is owned by nvidia these days. Their compilers have a strong focus on HPC, and have support for OpenACC and OpenMP (among lots of other stuff). My understanding is that their generated code is pretty good, and they have some interesting tools built in to help find you missed opportunities for optimizations which may improve things for other compilers as well.

The C compiler doesn't masquerade as GCC (like clang and icc do) or MSVC, so it could be a good portability check for your code. It supports most of C11, but AFAICT no atomics or thread-local storage (except through OpenACC/OpenMP). There is a C++ compiler, too.

They seem pretty relaxed about licensing. Unlike Intel where you have to manage licenses, PGI has a EULA you have to agree to, but after that they trust you to obey it, which is refreshing. You don't even have to register on their web site if you don't want to.

[Bulat Ziganshin]

afaik, it was the first compiler to support openACC, and that's interesting by itself. Unfortunately, Windows support included only in professional version. While i can run compiler in VM, i can't run GPU programs there

It looks that they use the same license checker as Intel: http://www.pgroup.com/support/download_licensing.php

[nemequ]

I can't speak to the Windows version, but the Linux version of the Community Edition doesn't seem to have any kind of license checker; I think that's just for Professional Edition.

The license does not use the flexlm license service, so there is no central controlling mechanism that can monitor compiler usage.

From comment #4 on http://www.pgroup.com/userforum/viewtopic.php?t=5502.

[Bulat Ziganshin]

well, the community version doesn't have a license, so it doesn't control one. the profi version has one and control one

[nemequ]

It has a license. Otherwise nobody would be allowed to use it.

Frankly, it's not a very good one (IMHO, IANAL), but they seem well-intentioned, and pretty chill about enforcement; just take a look at that thread I linked to on their forum.

[Bulat Ziganshin]

it's not a sort of license that requires FlexiNet to support, so community version indeed doesn't need a license manager

EDIT: looking at your thread, it seems that i was incorrect

[nemequ]

I just put together a script to help enable testing with PGI Community Edition on Travis CI: https://github.com/nemequ/pgi-travis.

[nemequ]

A new version of PGI Community Edition was released last night, and it now supports Windows too.